"Huh......?"

"Resources in the world are finite. If you know that Kigas Sida couldn't grow crops around it until you cut it down, you should be able to understand that, right? Similarly, if an old body wants to generate an item with a certain priority, it must sacrifice a being of equal value. When the old man was fighting the Administrator, the guy spawned the sword, and I spawned the cane - and at the same time, the valuable artifacts that the guy had stored in the cupboard disappeared without a trace, hehe......"

Cardinal tapped the floor with his right cane and let out a somewhat pleasant smile.

But, as you can see, this large library is a completely enclosed space, and there are no objects to transform even if you want to make high-priority weapons. Among the almost infinite books, it is only the contents that are valuable...... I've considered using the cane, but it would be very troublesome to fight the Administrator without it...... There is only one thing that can be paid for, and that is this body. The old body's body has a high priority, and in any case, this body belongs to the person with the highest authority in the world. ”

"What......"

"...... body?"

Lin Yiyan and Ugeo reflexively looked at Cardinal's gorgeous body. Although she quickly noticed that this was rude and looked away, it was enough to confirm that she did not have any defects at this time. Lin Yiyan swallowed what he wanted to say back into his stomach countless times, but finally stammered.

“…… This, such words...... In other words, is it ...... to cut off a part of the body, transform it into an object, and then regenerate it with divine magic? ”

"Stupid, wouldn't that mean nothing at all? That's what I use. Cardinal turned his head and gently ran his fingers through the brown curls that were tied in two next to his slender neck.

"Ahh......h I see, is it hair......"

"For every short sword made, it consumes a bunch of hair that has been accumulated for two hundred years. If you had come earlier, you would have been able to see the old man's proud long hair before it was cut off. ”

Although Cardinal used a joking tone, there was still a faint look of sadness in the depths of her eyes, which was enough to prove that Cardinal still had a part of her heart that was no different from that of a normal girl. However, Cardinal soon lurked the sentimental fragment behind the old sage's demeanor.

For the above reasons, the dagger looked so inconspicuous, but it possessed a sharpness enough to penetrate the armor of the integrated knight. Moreover, in a sense, it is still a part of the old body, and it can establish a passage through the void space that surrounds the large library...... Originally, this was something that was created to fight the Administrator...... Yi Yan, this was originally meant to allow you to avoid that guy's attack and stab this sword into her body. The second handle was originally generated only as a backup. Of course, it's best to get it right the first time. ”

"Hmm...... I feel like I have a great responsibility......" Looking at the short sword hanging from his right hand again, Lin Yiyan finally noticed. The dark brown sheen of the dagger is exactly the same as the curly hair that appears under the brim of Cardinal's hat. Eugeo was confused by the explanation mixed with the sacred words, but he understood how valuable the sword he handed over to him was, and hesitated to speak to Cardinal.

"That...... Really, can you? Let me use one of the only two daggers in the world for Alice's ......? ”

"It's okay. Anyway, no matter what......" Cardinal said this, interrupted his words, and looked at Lin Yiyan, his eyes seemed to have completely seen through what I was thinking. Yes, no matter what, if you want to have a happyend and complete your angel, you must finally use Cardinal's hand to relieve Alice's brainwashing.

At the same time, it is better to explain everything to Eugeo, and it should be better after retrieving Alice. If he was with his beloved, Yugeo might agree to leave this world. No, you have to get him to agree, no matter what needs to be done.

Lin Yiyan turned around, put his head through the chains, and hung the short sword on his chest. After Ugeo made the same move, Lin Yiyan thought of some of the contents of Cardinal's explanation just now, so he asked her, "Speaking of which...... If something has to be paid for when something is generated, what about the previous ones? Didn't you put out a mountain of food when we first arrived? ”

Cardinal shrugged his shoulders and smiled lightly, "What, I don't care about this at all. It's just a matter of making two or three worthless law books disappear. Hearing this, the history fanatic Eugeo grabbed the chains around his neck with both hands and made a wonderful sound from the depths of his throat.

"Huh? What's wrong? Still want to eat? I'll do a little more for you. Cardinal raised his cane, as if ready to swing down, while Giorgio swung his head and hands wildly.

"No, no, I've eaten enough! Let's keep talking!! ”

"Actually, you don't need to care so much." Cardinal smiled softly as if he had completely seen through the other's thoughts, put down his cane, coughed lightly, and then switched back to his previous serious tone.

Although the order of explanation is a bit problematic, but as mentioned before, these two short swords are your trump cards. When fighting, your highest priority is to stab their opponents with this sword, Yu Yugeo is Alice, and Yu Yiyan is Administrator. If you want to increase the success rate, you can also sneak attack or play dead. In the old man's opinion, what makes you better than the integrated knight is that you are proficient in all kinds of dirty ...... No, it's mastery of more practical tricks. ”

Yugeo wanted to say something as if he didn't agree with this sentence completely, but before that, Lin Yiyan nodded heavily as if he was saying "That's exactly what it is".

"If I could, I don't care about using despicable means to avoid all the fighting...... Unfortunately, however, it was the other side who had the advantage, and we had to be prepared for a head-to-head battle with the other side...... So, Cardinal, as you said before, let's 'reach the same level as the integrated knights at the equipment level', can I understand that you can provide us with artifact-level weapons and armor? ”

Obviously in such an urgent state, Lin Yiyan's hopeless nature of a raider sensitively smelled the aura of "the incident of getting the strongest weapon" and reacted, staring at Cardinal with his heart beating excitedly. And the girl showed a helpless expression that she didn't know how many times she had today, closed her eyes and said the lines that ruined the fun.

"Big fool, didn't you hear anything just now? Listen, I want to spawn high-level items-"

"- That's right...... It must be at the cost of items of the same level...... That's ......."

"Don't look like a child who has lost a toy! The old body can't help but wonder if it's the right choice for you! In general, the so-called weapons are not things that can be freely manipulated at the moment of acquisition, and you should be well aware of this. Even if the old body can provide a powerful artifact, you will not be able to match the weapons that the integration knights have used for decades and have become their flesh and blood. ”

Lin Yiyan remembered the long whip that Elderliye struck me like a silver snake, and had to nod in acknowledgement. Indeed, even in the era of the SAO, it was a serious misconduct to engage in actual combat without even doing proficient training for a valuable weapon.

Lin Yiyan's current mood was not so much that he had lost his toy, but that Dinal continued with an expression of helplessness and pity, "Speaking of which, even if you don't have an old body, don't you and Yougeo already have a strong enough love sword?" ”

"Huh!?" Yugeo bounced off the ground, "Can you get them back?!" My Sword of the Green Rose and ...... Yi Yan's black guy!? ”

"That's the only way to do it. Those two swords can be described as real artifacts. One is the only four dragon knight weapons in the world, and the other is the essence of the magic tree that has absorbed the resources of the vast area for hundreds of years...... Even if it is an old body or an administrator, it is not easy to instantly generate a weapon of the same level. In addition, aren't you also quite proficient in the use of those two swords? ”

"What...... If you can do that, I'll say it sooner. Lin Yiyan breathed a long sigh of relief and leaned his body against the bookshelf beside him. I'd pretty much given up on reclaiming the Sword of Love that we confiscated before we were thrown into the dungeon, but it would be nice to be able to recover it.

"But...... Even if we were able to recapture it, there would still be problems such as "there is no way to teleport us directly to that place...... Right? ”

"Hmm, don't you know very well?" In response to Lin Yiyan's question, Cardinal nodded lightly and crossed his arms over his chest.

"I'm afraid that your sword is kept in the weapons vault on the third floor of the cathedral. Although the nearest back door is only 30 meters away...... No, about 30 Mel, but as you've seen before, the worms that dministrator released to search for me are going to swarm...... So, after you have left the door and retrieved your sword, you will have to climb the tower on your own. Luckily, the main entrance to the arsenal is the main staircase. ”

"Well, from the third floor...... By the way, what floor is the Administrator's room? ”

"Considering that the Central Cathedral has been increasing in height year after year...... It should be close to a hundred floors by now......"

"Ouch......" Lin Yiyan was speechless. Admittedly, the white marble tower in the center of Santoria is impossible to see from the top of the tower – but in any case it was never expected to be taller than the high-rise buildings in the real world. Moreover, if you have to fight with the integration knights on every floor-thinking this, Lin Yiyan's voice is about to cry.

"W- at least let's start on the 50th floor......"

"Think about the situation a little, Yi Yan." Interjecting with a wry smile was Yugeo, who was ten times more positive and optimistic than Lin Yiyan, "If the itinerary is extended, doesn't it mean that the enemy is dispersed?" ”

"Ah, well, it seems like that......" Lin Yiyan slowly slid down with his back against the bookshelf, sat down in the corridor, and nodded reluctantly.

“…… Well, it's like climbing the sightseeing stairs of the tower in the past......"

"Huh?"

"No, nothing. INTERVIEWER All in all, that's the course of action. Infiltrate the arsenal to retrieve our swords, then take them all the way down the integration knights you meet, and climb up the stairs step by step. If you meet Alice, you can put her to sleep with a short sword and send her to the large library. Wait until you reach the 100th floor, and then use your short sword to stab the Administrator and retrieve the fragment of Alice's memory. ”

Finally accepted this fact, Cardinal's calm voice poured a basin of cold water on Lin Yiyan's face, "Unfortunately, there is one more thing that I have to tell you." ”

"Huh? What, what? ”

"Your sword is indeed very powerful, but I am afraid that it will not be able to defeat the integration knight on that alone. You know, they have a secret technique that increases the performance of weapons several times. ”

"Ah...... Could it be that it is armed with total domination......? Hearing Eugeo's whisper, Cardinal nodded heavily.

"Artifact-level weapons inherit the nature of the item from which they originated. The Frostscale Whip wielded by Elderiya, who had fought with you, was the Administrator's attempt to capture alive the two-headed White Snake, the lord of the largest lake in the Eastern Country, and turn it into a weapon. However, even though it is a whip in terms of objects alone, it still has the parameters of "agility", "sharpness of scales", and "precision sniping" that snakes have. The so-called total domination technique is to liberate the memory of the so-called weapon and realize the extraordinary attack power that would otherwise be unattainable. ”

"Mmmmmm, that guy's whip turned into a snake, it turned out to be not an illusion......" Lin Yiyan echoed and looked at his chest that had only been embedded in the flesh by Eldelier's whip before, while praying that the whip was not attached to the chronic toxin like the white snake, while listening carefully to Cardinal's explanation.

"All of the Integrating Knights have learned from the Administrator the command of full control of their weapons. This also includes training to perform lengthy commands for high-speed chanting. Although there is no time for you to practice chanting, at least you must learn how to completely control your sword so that you can have any hope of victory. ”

"This ...... But my black sword is not a living thing, but a tree, ......? Is there any memory that can be liberated from that kind of thing? ”

"Yes. The short sword that was handed over to you and the others before, it is precisely because of the memories of being the hair of the old body that it can open the passage between the target and the old body at the moment of successful attack through the same process as the complete domination technique. Not only is Kigascida, who is the sword of yours in his previous life, not only the ice cube that is the origin of Yugeo's sword of the green rose, but also the ice cube that never melts. ”

"Only...... Is it just a piece of ice? Even Ugeo was dumbfounded. This is also a matter of course, the so-called nature of ice, Lin Yiyan can only think of things like "it's so cold". Lin Yiyan reluctantly nodded to himself, forcibly taking these teachings to heart as "one of the only two gods in the world".

"Well...... As long as you teach us the technique, we can also master the complete domination of the sword. If you can use special moves, it's better than anything else. So, what exactly is that skill? However, Cardinal's rebuttal was completely unexpected by Lin Yiyan.

"Don't be naïve! The old body can only write down the technique, and it is up to you to write what kind of attack technique you write. ”

"Huh...... Huh!? Why!? ”

"The essence of the art of total domination of arms, the liberation of memory, cannot be achieved by chanting alone. It is also necessary for the wielder to have a strong impression of the weapon's freed posture...... Imagine it. Rather, the process of imagination is the power that is closer to the core than the total domination itself. This is because imagination ...... That is, the 'mind', which is the principle of the root of this world......"

Cardinal's words were incomprehensible to most of Lin Yiyan. Lin Yiyan couldn't tell for a moment whether the word called 'Xinyi' was a sacred language or a lingua franca, and when he was about to ask about the meaning, a corner of his memory was awakened.

Is that...... That's right, more than two months ago, in front of the flower bed in the dormitory of the junior practitioner of the Sword Cultivation Academy, I was holding the buds of the torn Zefria and fell into a depression, and I heard someone...... No, it wasn't anyone, but Cardinal's messenger, the voice of the little black spider Shamilles. All the techniques are just tools that guide and organize the mind, that is, the imagination.

Lin Yiyan followed what she said, imagining in her mind the sight of the vitality radiating from the four holy flowers blooming in the surrounding flower beds flowing into the severed seedlings that remained in the flower pots. There was no chanting of a single word, but a green light flowed in the air, enveloping the seedlings...... Then Zevria was resurrected.

That's right, that must be what Cardinal calls the process of imagining. Because, that phenomenon really cannot be described by any one kind of technique. As if seeing through Lin Yiyan's heart, Cardinal nodded, looked at Yougeo, who was still confused, and said, "Come with the old man." Take a break and then start writing the technique. ”

Passing through the corridor of the history books and down a few flights of stairs, the trio returned to the circular room on the first floor of the large library to which they had been taken. The plates of buns and sandwiches that were left were still on the table in the center of the room, and even after more than two hours, they were still steaming hot. It seems that not only can the person who eats it restore the destiny of heaven, but it also contains a technique that will not cool down at any time.

Although his appetite was ignited again after seeing these foods, now that he knew that the sources of these foods were all books on the shelves, Dinal looked at Lin Yiyan and Yugeo, who were standing in great confusion, and said mercilessly, "It will disturb the imagination process, and if you don't eat it, you will withdraw it." ”